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Last Wednesday, July 22, deputies with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 5000 block of Old Country Road in Bedford in reference to an assault call.
According to a news release from the Sheriff's Office, deputies spoke to a male victim who was suffering from numerous cuts and lacerations. The victim told the deputies that he had responded to a Craigslist.com ad offering sexual services by a subject identifying herself as “Trinity,” and he had arranged with her to meet at her residence in the 5000 block of Old Country Road.

The Bedford County School Board got some good news at its Thursday night meeting.
According to Randy Hagler, the school division’s chief financial officer, the school division ended the last fiscal year $503,000 in the black. Hagler said this came about because the school division received $310,000 more in revenue than anticipated, while expenditures were $193,000 below what was budgeted. Hagler said the supervisors will be asked to re-appropriate this money to the school division’s maintenance fund.

On Monday, football players from Staunton River High School were getting ready to pick up equipment for practice that was set to begin later this week.
And a football camp for young Golden Eagles-in-waiting was on the schedule for that evening.
But football practice has been delayed and the camp postponed as the SRHS community learned of the loss of one of their own, 17-year-old Chase Mullins, who drowned while swimming at Smith Mountain Lake Sunday evening.

The New London Cannery opened for business this month and will remain open until the middle of December. The cannery allows people to can large amounts at one time.

“You know where the produce came from,” commented Sharon Johnston, who was helping her friend, Laura Knaup can tomatoes, Thursday. Johnston and her husband, Clay, had canned 30 quart cans of their own tomatoes two days earlier. The couple have 31 tomato plants.

The Peaks & Pieces Quilt Guild’s annual quilt show is currently brightening the interior of the Bedford Central Library. The colorful quilts line the library’s balcony and visitors can vote for their favorites.